Tag Kevin Hogan
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Nats set to lose Page: poll
Nationals member for Page Kevin Hogan could be looking for a new job next year if the results of a Fairfax/Ipsos poll, announced today, were replicated at the upcoming federal election.
July 9, 2018 | Chris Dobney | 6 -
New sportsfields opened in Wollongbar
The new million-dollar 14-hectare sporting facilities were officially opened by the federal member for Page Kevin Hogan last week The new grounds include an AFL field/cricket oval, two rugby grounds with lighting, six tennis courts with lighting, four sealed... Read More →
May 1, 2018 | The Echo | 1 -
$500 for local sports stars
At a Local Sporting Champions Award morning tea last week, 14 local teenagers were awarded $500 cheques to help them to follow their sporting dreams. ‘Those who received the awards have excelled themselves representing the northern rivers on the national... Read More →
January 30, 2018 | The Echo | 0 -
Mountain bike park attracts $207,000 funding
The NSW Government has today announced $207,000 to construct the Duck Creek Mountain Bike Park at Alstonville.
January 17, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Page MP says he will hold his own Aust Day ceremony
Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan said he would hold his own Australia Day Citizenship and Awards Ceremony in Lismore if the Lismore City Council council scraps Australia Day celebrations on January 26.
August 17, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Lismore koala centre gets an $80,000 boost
A federal grant of almost $80,000 will help transform Lismore’s existing Koala Care Centre into a major educational tourism destination, Page MP Kevin Hogan says.
October 6, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 4 -
Colour but not much movement at Page candidates’ forum
Lismore City Hall seemed an optimistic choice of venue for Tuesday night’s Page candidates’ forum, hosted by GetUp. But it was almost full, perhaps surprisingly given the state of roads after Saturday’s storms.
June 8, 2016 | Chris Dobney | 3 -
Hogan denies local meatworkers at risk from live export trade
The union representing meatworkers has claimed that the expansion of the live export cattle trade would put up to a thousand jobs at Casino’s meat processing plant at risk. But Page MP Kevin Hogan has rejected the claim.
May 27, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Gonski supporters to rally outside Hogan’s office
Supporters of needs-based Gonski funding will protest outside the office of Kevin Hogan today over the lack of support for Gonski in this year’s Federal Budget.
May 25, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Federal MPs stoush over CSG on north coast
The state government has dismissed as a 'bureaucratic bungle' a CD it issued spruiking northern NSW to some 20,000 foreign mining investors as a good place for coal seam gas exploration.
May 13, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 4 -
Chinese interests buy macadamia farms around Dunoon
The recent purchase by Chinese interests of four large macadamia farms in the Dunoon area with around 130,000 trees was approved by the federal government under its national interest test.
March 11, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 6 -
Lismore rally to protest return of asylum seekers to Nauru
A rally to protest the Federal Government's 'inhumane treatment' of asylum seekers held in offshore detention centres is being held in Lismore, and other centres across Australia, today.
February 5, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Local businesses invited to Pacific Highway briefings
A series of briefings to help local industries get involved in the final stage of the Pacific Highway upgrade are being planned.
November 20, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Federal govt moves towards medical cannabis regulation
Strange bedfellows Nimbin's Hemp Embassy and Nationals Page MP Kevin Hogan have welcomed news that the federal government is set to allow the controlled cultivation of cannabis for medicinal or scientific purposes in Australia.
October 19, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 5 -
Region’s mobile phone blackspots to be fixed
Mobile phone coverage across the northern rivers and Clarence Valley is set to improve improved with an $8.1 million investment to fix 91 local black spots. Is your area on the list?
June 25, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 5 -
Trade [dis]agreement: MP removes activist from Facebook page
A north coast activist who commented on Page MP Kevin Hogan’s Facebook post about the federal government’s free trade agreement with China has been banned from the page because he is ‘not a constituent’, according to the MP.
June 19, 2015 | Chris Dobney | 4 -
Community given extra month to buy Casino Drill Hall
The Casino community now has an extra month to conclude negotiations to buy the Casino Drill Hall.
May 28, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Lismore Aboriginal preschool thrown a funding lifeline
An Aboriginal preschool in Lismore will receive $350,000 to continue its literacy and numeracy programs. The funding announcement follows fears the preschool would have to sack staff because of funding cuts.
May 18, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Another political voice calls for north coast CSG ban
Another conservative political voice has joined the chorus calling for a ban on coal seam licence from the north coast of new south wales.
May 15, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Ballina to honour war horses with avenue of trees
The Federal Government has stumped up cash to fund an avenue of trees dedicated to Australian war horses. The $8000 project will be known as “Walers Way”, and follows a motion from Cr Sue Meehan last September to apply for the funding. The... Read More →
April 22, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Casino Drill Hall future on the agenda
The future of the107-year-old Drill Hall at Casino will be up for discussion today at a meeting of the Richmond Valley Council.
March 17, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Six-month wait for dole ‘will lead to poverty on north coast’
People under 30 on the north coast will live in poverty if they’re forced to wait six months for the dole under the federal government’s controversial Newstart changes, according to Richmond MP Justine Elliot.
February 19, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
‘Koala highway’ upgrade goes to tender
The focus of the Pacific Highway upgrade is moving to the Woolgoolga to Ballina section despite concerns remaining over impacts of important koala habitat.
January 22, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Hogan calls in ACCC over fuel-price gouging
Federal Page MP Kevin Hogan has called on the consumer watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, to explain why oil-price reductions aren’t being passed on to north coast consumers.
January 9, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Casino Drill Hall gets a reprieve
The sale of Casino’s historic Drill Hall has received an eleventh-hour reprieve after intervention by Page MP Kevin Hogan – but only for six months.
December 3, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 0
